The armed services prefer to recruit high-quality youth because of their better performance and lower attrition. However, high-quality youth are increasingly interested in attending college. While existing policies, such as the Montgomery GI Bill, that are targeted to the recruitment of the college market are likely to continue to have an eﬀect, new policies must be developed to successfully penetrate this marke

The Syrian regime of Hafez al-Assad has in the past year seemed to change direction, first with tentative moves toward liberalization, then by siding with the American-led coalition that fought against Saddam Hussein and, perhaps most dramatically, by acceding to America’s wish that it attend a peace conference with Israel. There is no doubt that U.S.-Syrian relations have greatly improved in the process.

The field of macroeconomic theory has evolved rapidly over the last quarter
century. A quick glance at the discipline’s leading journals reveals that virtually
the entire academic profession has turned to interpreting macroeconomic
data with models that are based on microeconomic foundations. Unfortunately,
these models often require a relatively high degree of mathematical sophistication,
leaving them largely inaccessible to the interested lay person (students,
newspaper columnists, business economists, and policy makers).

Stabilization Programs, Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate Movements in Emerging Markets Economies I use a unique data set consisting of observations on more than 300,000
metropolitan SAT takers from the 1994 cohort, matched to the high schools that students
attended. The size of this sample permits accurate estimation of both peer quality and
average performance for the great majority of high schools in each of 177 metropolitan
housing markets. I find no evidence that the association between peer group and student
performance is stronger in high-choice than in low-choice markets....

This project has its origins in a conference on ecosystem services that Gretchen
Daily of the Stanford Biology Department, Geoff Heal of the Columbia Business
School, and Peter Raven, Director of the Missouri Botanical Gardens,
organized at the Gardens in 1998. Having become intrigued by the concept of
ecosystem services, which at the time was still relatively new even within ecological
economics, the three of us eagerly attended and immediately noticed
that, besides J. B., only one other lawyer was present in the audience of more
than a hundred.

With regard to the interest rate environment, we expect that the ECB will
continue to raise key rates in the near future. There are several reasons why the
ECB will tighten policy somewhat. One is that inflation has remained above
the target for a long time, albeit moderately, and in the recent survey reported
by the ECB inflation forecasts were raised slightly compared to the previous
one. Also, the monetary overhang, which the ECB interprets as one leading
indicator for future inflation, increased further due to persistently high money
growth.

Stability Bonds must not lead to a reduction in budgetary discipline among euro-area
Member States. A notable feature of the period since the launch of the euro has been
inconsistency in market discipline of budgetary policy in the participating Member States.
The high degree of convergence in euro-area bond yields during the first decade of the euro
was not, in retrospect, justified by the budgetary performance of the Member States. The
correction since 2009 has been abrupt, with possibly some degree of overshooting.

A survey of both temporary and registration to attend the "other" goat farmers Vietnam-Australia
Improvement Project was implemented in November 2007 just before the other activities of
balance and record the end date in December 2007. This information will be analyzed and
explanations related to the previous survey and final survey was conducted in June 2008. the
survey results are presented below in Table additional planning activities.

We called these groups “target communications audiences,” and as a first step in our analysis we sought
to define the characteristics of these groups and their information needs.
To determine who the audiences of policy influencers and of direct advisors to government policy makers
are for the information Apheis produces, we first sought to understand how policy on air pollution is made
and by whom.

Investment of ﬁnancial and human resources. A higher proportion of national budgets should be allocated to develop-
ing adequate infrastructure and services for mental health. At the same time, more human resources are needed to
provide care for those with mental disorders and to protect and promote mental health. Countries, especially those
with limited resources, need to establish speciﬁcally targeted policies, plans and initiatives to promote and support
mental health.
Who needs to invest? All of us with interest in the health and development of people and communities.

This Report illustrates the vigorous efforts being
undertaken by many developing countries to catch up
with their more developed partners in the dissemination
and use of ICT. However, it also shows that the
gaps are still far too wide and the catching-up far too
uneven for the promise of a truly global information
society, with its attendant benefits for sustainable
social and economic development, to materialize without the sustained engagement of national Governments, the business sector and civil society, and the tangible solidarity of the international community...

In 2008, NLM evaluated the work of two
companies who provide mass digitization services for
library materials. Several staff visited a shared use
installation of the Internet Archive at the Library of
Congress. In July, Kirtas Technologies set up digitization
equipment at NLM and more than 80 staff and visitors
attended demonstrations of their processing.
NLM began a multi-year inventory of the serials
collection in FY2006. By the end of FY2008, the
contractor, CBase Solutions Inc., had inventoried 17,072
serial titles.

Fairly large proportion of patients attending
for the first time the Chest Clinics in India have
had anti-tuberculosis chemotherapy for some
time though irregularly. The assessment of the
prevalence of Initial Drug Resistance (IDR)
among these patients will be of great value in
their management and also in formulating
general policies of treatment in the Chest
Clinics under the National Tuberculosis Control
Programme.

This volume includes nine papers that were prepared as part of a research
project on international aspects of taxation, undertaken by the National Bu-
reau of Economic Research. The authors present new empirical studies of
effects of tax policy on decisions of multinational corporations in three areas:
international financial management, investment, and income shifting. This
research was the focus of a conference attended by academics, policymakers,
and representatives of international organizations. The conference was...

Authoritative and readable, this brief survey is a comprehensive
historical overview of the U.S. federal tax system. Its coverage ex-
tends from the ratiﬁcation of the Constitution to the present day.
Brownlee describes the ﬁve principal stages of federal taxation in
relation to the crises that led to their adoption—the formation of
the republic, the CivilWar,WorldWar I, the Great Depression, and
World War II—and discusses the signiﬁcant modiﬁcations during
the Reagan presidency.

Real estate professionals attending Ernst & Young’s conference were
almost equally split in their views of the Eurozone’s future. Asked whether
the Eurozone would survive in its current form for the next 12 months,
48% thought it would not.
Michael Portillo, keynote speaker at this year’s conference, said politicians
and policy advisors will be highly focused on the Eurozone’s problems during
2012. “There’s an enormous amount of political capital invested in the Euro,
so huge amounts will be expended in trying to save it.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an intergovernmental
organisation in which representatives of 30 industrialised countries in North America, Europe and the
Pacific, as well as the European Commission, meet to co-ordinate and harmonize policies, discuss
issues of mutual concern, and work together to respond to international problems. Most of the
OECD’s work is carried out by more than 200 specialised Committees and subsidiary groups
composed of Member country delegates.

Historically, children typically attended the school closest to their home (`neighbor-
hood school'). Today, in some US school districts, children can enroll in a school
choice program, attending a `magnet school' instead of the closest neighborhood
school. We aim to explore interactions between school choice and school commute
mode, especially walking and cycling.